revocation alone establishes a prima facie case for asylum. Haile, 591 F.3d 574. Although the decisions of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals are not binding on the BIA when it considers cases in this circuit, they have persuasive authority. The BIA provides no reasoning or explanation for why it rejects the appellate court’s decision. Since the BIA issued its decision, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has joined the Seventh Circuit in finding that “ethnically targeted denationalization of people who do not have dual citizenship may be persecution.” Stserba, 2011 WL 1901546 (C.A.6). Citing to Haile, 591 F.3d 572, the Sixth Circuit citizenship that the addressed resulting respondent in “may the revocation statelessness, have of stating suffered past persecution simply because she became stateless due to her ethnicity” even if she suffered no adverse 39

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